Travel Challenge January 2009
This month we have a “Mystery Animal” photo for you to decipher. The challenge is to identify the animal in this picture.
Please be as specific as possible. Good luck!
(Click photo for larger version.)
Instructions: When you think you have figured it out, enter your guess in the comment field below. Be sure to check back next week to see if you were right.
The photo has not been doctored; it is the glorious combination of two things, my lack of ability as a photographer and the subjects’ stubborn refusal to be photographed. Happy guessing!


Downy Woodpecker.
[...] This month’s photo was a tough one I admit. Imagine how we felt as we watched the bird fly into the tree’s branches and disappear. It took us a few minutes of work with the bins to find and finally identify it. [...]